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{{colorboxblack}}|yearbook =|publication = The Muse literary magazine|newspaper = Tuna Talk|opened = 1941School web site - General Information retrieved November 25, 2008|enrollment = |enrollmet_as_of = |footnotes =www.roeper.org/}}}}The Roeper School is a private coeducational day school with campuses in Birmingham and Bloomfield Hills, Michigan in Greater Detroit, serving students at all levels from preschool through the 12th grade. It was formerly known as Roeper City and Country School.

History

The Roeper School was founded in 1941 by George and Annemarie Roeper,WEB, McDonald, Connor, 2023-12-03, The Roeper School,www.hourdetroit.com/sponsor-content/the-roeper-school/, 2023-12-08, Hour Detroit Magazine, en-US, who were forced to flee Nazi Germany. At the time the Roeper fled Europe, Annemarie had been invited by Anna Freud to be her protégé and, in fact, had completed her first year of medical school.Together the Roepers founded the school intending it to be a place that, by teaching personal motivation and encouraging critical thinking skills and analysis, would educate children who would not follow leadership blindly as they believed had happened to many people in interwar Germany. It was also hoped the children would come to recognize the inherent dignity of every individual and to not harbor prejudice.WEB,www.sensepublishers.com/catalogs/bookseries/advances-in-creativity-and-giftedness/the-roeper-school/, The Roeper School: A model for holistic development of high ability, 2016-01-14, The school first moved to the Bloomfield Hills campus ({{coord|42|35|34.1|N|83|15|07.7|W|region:US-MI_type:edu|display=inline,title}}) in 1946 and was designated a school for gifted children in 1956. In 1965 the Upper School (high school) program was added, and in 1981, the middle and upper schools moved to the former Adams Elementary School in Birmingham, Michigan ({{coord|42|33|00.8|N|83|12|23.6|W|region:US-MI_type:edu|display=inline}}), thereby creating two campuses.WEB,www.coventrycrest.com/, Coventry Crest - Roeper School, 2007-08-16, 2007-09-27,www.coventrycrest.com/," title="web.archive.org/web/20070927090003www.coventrycrest.com/,">web.archive.org/web/20070927090003www.coventrycrest.com/, dead, The Capital Campaign fundraising initiative began in the mid-nineties and has provided the school with its largest investment in new facilities, including a new elementary school classroom building that sits adjacent to the new community center that houses the school’s first full size gymnasium, and the lower school’s first large choir and band rooms.

Notable alumni

• Flavia Colgan, political activist and analyst{{cn|date=December 2023}}
• Tiffany P. Cunningham, a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit{{cn|date=December 2023}}
• John Marshall Jones, actor{{cn|date=December 2023}}
• Sharon LaFraniere (class of 1973), journalistJOURNAL,www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02783193.2018.1506975?scroll=top&needAccess=true, Insights From an Ethical, Adventurous, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist: An Interview With Sharon LaFraniere, Roeper Review, Don, Ambrose, October 30, 2018, 40, 4, 268–272, 10.1080/02783193.2018.1506975, 149858492, April 10, 2020,
• Dwayne McDuffie,WEB, U-M Detroiter Hall of Fame {{!, U-M Detroit |url=https://detroit.umich.edu/detroit-center/honors-awards/u-m-detroiter-hall-of-fame/ |access-date=2023-12-08 |website=detroit.umich.edu}} comic book and animation writer
• Richard R. Murray, founder of Equity Schools{{cn|date=December 2023}}
• Susan Shapiro, author and writing teacher{{cn|date=December 2023}}
• Angela V. Shelton, actress and comedian{{cn|date=December 2023}}
• Bahni Turpin, actress and audiobook narrator{{cn|date=December 2023}}
• Matt Wayne, television and comic book writer{{cn|date=December 2023}}
• Kayden Pierre, professional soccer player{{cn|date=December 2023}}
• Charlie White (class of 2005), Olympic ice dancer{{cn|date=December 2023}}
• Mark Zbikowski (class of 1974), Microsoft programmer, designer of the DOS executable file format{{cn|date=December 2023}}
• Daniel Kahn, Yiddish scholar and Klezmer musician. {{cn|date=December 2023}}

References

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External links

• {{officialwww.roeper.org}}
• Official school history website

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